Lawyers: Publicizing the names of victims by the counterproliferation Special makes the opinion that the accused are guilty

The Prosecutor's Office specialised in The Hague has handed over a less edited public version of the amended indictment in the case against former KLA leaders, where the names of some of the victims allegedly killed and several allegedly disappeared by force.

In this regard, the attorney licensed by the Special Court, Artan Kerkuni, It has been named as controversial to publish the names of victims by The Hague's Specialised Prosecutor's Office, who allegedly were killed by former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders who are accused of war crimes.

The “is counterinsisting how the prosecution could assume that there is a risk that hurts witnesses, and the other side has been published their names even though the Special is likely to keep it confidential”, said the Mayor for Albanian Post.

On the other hand, Skender Musa believes publishing the names of the victims by the Special Court undermines the defendant's defence interest because the perception of the accused's guilt arises in the opinion.

In Kosovo's judicial practice, Musa further argues, there are no cases that have been published the names of victims before the start of the judicial process.

The law does not impose on the court to publish names of either victims or other parties except information received during public sessions. The publication of the victims' names cannot say it is prohibited, but it considers it could harm the defendant's defence interest because a public opinion arises that the accused are guilty of”, he says of the Albanian Post.

The names that the Special published:

In the Crenna Town, as victims of the murder, it is mentioned: Emin Emin, Ibush Hamza, Hyzri Hajrizi, Shaban Hoti, Safet Hyssenaj, Bashkit Rashi, Lutfi Xhemashi, Thank you Zymer and Hasan Hoxha and Ajet Gashi.

And in the municipality of Lipjan, as victims of the murder, it is cited: Bojan Cvetkovic, Zarko Filipovic, Dragoljub Tanaskovic, Zivota Todorovic and Dragan Vucevic.

In the Podujevo municipality, however, as a victim of Osman Sinan until Cvetko Pljevic is mentioned in the Rahovec municipality, and Hysen Krasniqi is also mentioned.

At the same time, Suhareka is mentioned as Latife Cololley and Cololley Street.

As victims of the forced disappearance of Ferizaj, they are mentioned: We beat Elez, Riza Kiki, Faik Reci and Nezir Topoyanni. In Suhareka, however, there is the mention of Latife Cololley and Colloll Street.

Meanwhile, Pal Krasniqi is mentioned in Gjakova.

Kosovo's Specialised Chambers in The Hague have indicated that in the case of Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi, four sessions have been scheduled for April of this year.